Markets get a smart relief rally; Nifty ends over 4,900 mark

24 May 2012 Evaluate

Markets returned to a jubilant mood on Thursday, though the global cues remained lackluster but the S&P CNX Nifty showed its own strength and surged by over one and half a percent bucking the global trend. It was a surprise, steep price hike decision taken by the oil marketing companies that gave an indication that the government may go for some more stiff decision in the upcoming EGoM meeting on diesel and LPG, thereby reducing the fiscal deficit.

Meanwhile the market made a jubilant start with the benchmark index Nifty recovering all its last session gain in very early trade. Though, initially there was some hiccup but once the market gathered momentum they started moving higher, some jitters once again appeared in the mid-noon when the European markets declined on report that major economies in the region witnessed a contraction in their manufacturing activities and German business climate deteriorated. But the good recovery in the domestic currency helped the local markets to move higher. The rupee that had breached the 56 per dollar mark, turned a bit stronger against the dollar and traded within 56 mark in the late hours helping the equity markets to recover.

On the sectoral front, all were in green, CNX Auto gained 1.03%, CNX IT was up by  0.93%, CNX Metal was up by 1.40%, CNX Realty moved higher by 0.78%, while Bank Nifty surged by 2.47%. The broader indices too showed decent gains, CNX Midcap was up by 0.76% and CNX Smallcap index gained 0.97%. The India VIX witnessed contraction of 6.04% at 25.49 as compared to its previous close of at 27.13 on Wednesday.

The 50-share S&P CNX Nifty gained 85.75 points or 1.77% to settle at 4921.40.

Among Nifty calls, 5100 SP from the May month expiry was the most active call with an addition of 0.01 million open interest.

Among Nifty puts, 4700 SP from the May month expiry was the most active put with an addition of 0.23 million open interest.

The maximum OI outstanding for Calls was at 5100 SP (6.76mn) and that for Puts was at 4700 SP (9.41mn).

The respective Support and Resistance levels are: Resistance 4958.81-- Pivot Point 4894.48--Support 4857.06.

The Nifty Put Call Ratio (PCR) OI wise stood at 0.94 for May-month contract.

The top five scrips with highest PCR on OI were ABGShip 46.00, WelCorp 6.63, Tata Comm 2.00, Asian Paint 1.89, and MPHASIS 1.50

Among the most active underlying, IFCI witnessed contraction of 1.11 million of Open Interest in the April month futures contract followed by JP Associates which witnessed an addition of 0.52 million of Open Interest in the near month contract. Meanwhile, RCOM witnessed contraction of 1.65 million in the April month futures. Also, GMRINFRA witnessed contraction of 8.74 million in Open Interest in the April month contract. Finally, Tata Motors witnessed contraction of 0.92 million of Open Interest in the near month futures contract.

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